FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2018 file photo, women in animal costumes take part in the block party "Maria vem com as outras," or "Maria, join the other women," in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Brazil, many woman chose to push back against sexual harassment during this year's Carnival celebrations, with block parties of all-female musicians, shirts, necklaces and crowns with messages like "my breasts, my rules" and several campaigns to report and crackdown on harassment. But overall, the movement has not caught on in Brazil, which has one of the world's highest homicide rates for women. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2017 file photo, demonstrators hold placards reading "Sexism, that is not my gender" and "125 women killed in 2016", right, during a demonstration against sexual abuse and harassment across the country under the #MeToo movement, in Marseille, southern France. Perhaps no country has had more complex reaction to #MeToo than France - long identified as a haven for romance. The government is preparing new legislation on sexual violence and harassment, and some lawmakers want to impose fines for sexist catcalls. Yet despite sexual misconduct allegations against several prominent men, they haven't lost their jobs or reputations. Meanwhile, French feminists ranks have experienced divisions. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2017 file photo, a woman talks during a debate as part of a demonstration to support the wave of testimonies denouncing cases of sexual harassment across the country under the #MeToo movement, in Lyon, France. Perhaps no country has had more complex reaction to #MeToo than France - long identified as a haven for romance. The government is preparing new legislation on sexual violence and harassment, and some lawmakers want to impose fines for sexist catcalls. Yet despite sexual misconduct allegations against several prominent men, they haven't lost their jobs or reputations. Meanwhile, French feminists ranks have experienced divisions. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2017, file photo, Britain's Defense Secretary, Michael Fallon, addresses members of the media during a joint UK/Poland press conference in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. Harassment allegations last year led to Fallon's resignation and prompted political leaders to propose a new grievance procedure for people working in Parliament. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2017, file photo, Shiori Ito, a Japanese freelance journalist, who says was raped by a prominent TV newsman in 2015, talks about her ordeal and the need for more awareness and support for the victims in Japan, during an interview in Tokyo. Even before #MeToo exploded in the U.S., Ito was widely criticized after going public last year with rape allegations against a leading TV journalist. There is widespread reluctance among victims in Japan to report assaults; a 2015 government survey found that about three quarters of rape victims had never told anyone, and just over 4 percent had gone to police. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2018, file photo, Lillian Kight holds a U.S. flag with the #MeToo hashtag on her back as she marches with other demonstrators during the Chattanooga Women's March in Chattanooga, Tenn. Thanks to the vast reach of social media and the prevalence of sexual misconduct in virtually every society, the #MeToo movement has proven itself a genuinely global phenomenon. Yet its impact varies widely from country to country, from momentous to inconsequential. No other nation has experienced anything close to the developments in the United States, the movement's birthplace, where scores of prominent men have lost jobs and reputations after facing sexual misconduct allegations. (Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File)

#MeToo movement ripples in many parts of the world

By The Associated Press

Mar. 06, 2018

Some examples of how the #MeToo movement has played out around the world as women seek to raise awareness about sexual misconduct and confront men who perpetrated it:

JAPAN

Even before #MeToo exploded in the U.S., a Japanese freelance journalist, Shiori Ito, was widely criticized after going public last year with rape allegations against a leading TV journalist. There is widespread reluctance among victims in Japan to report assaults; a 2015 government survey found that about three-quarters of rape victims had never told anyone, and just over 4 percent had gone to police.

SOUTH KOREA

#MeToo gained momentum in January when a female prosecutor, Seo Ji-hyeon, alleged she was groped by a senior Justice Ministry official during a funeral in 2010. President Moon Jae-in voiced support for the movement, even as new allegations targeted prominent men in art, entertainment, religion and literature. "We should take this opportunity, however embarrassing and painful, to reveal the reality and find a fundamental solution," Moon told his top advisers.

ITALY

Sexual misconduct became front-page news last year when Italian actress Asia Argento emerged as one of the main accusers in an expose by The New Yorker about Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein. But her accusation of rape generated a hostile backlash in Italy, with newspaper commentators accusing her of creating trouble. Similarly, Italian film director Fausto Brizzi received some supportive media coverage after several women accused him of sexual misconduct.

DENMARK

Some Danish women were dismayed when a film executive who co-founded the Zentropa production company with director Lars von Trier was cleared to return to work following an investigation into claims of sexual harassment. Peter Aalbaek Jensen, 61, was accused in November by nine women of workplace behavior that included groping and slapping their behinds. Danish officials conducted an assessment of the company in December and "found no workplace problems at the time of the probe."

GERMANY

A prolific director of television dramas, Dieter Wedel, resigned in January as head of a theater festival following allegations of sexual misconduct. Wedel, 75, denied claims by several women that he pressured them for sex, saying the allegations left him "deeply disturbed and shaken." He was the first prominent figure in Germany to be named since the #MeToo movement emerged last year.

WEST BANK

A 21-year-old Palestinian-American, Yasmeen Mjalli, has sought to popularize #MeToo in the West Bank city of Ramallah, selling T-shirts, hoodies and denim jackets with the slogan "Not Your Habibti (darling)" as a retort for catcalls. She has faced some backlash from Palestinians who say that opposing Israel's occupation should be the priority, not sexual harassment.